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Apr 2, 2022
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Apr 2, 2022
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Jane Barlow (1856-1917)
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Mar 31, 2022
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Mar 31, 2022
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William Edwin Hamilton (1834-1902)
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Topics: pamphlet / short fiction, Americas, Ireland
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Mar 5, 2022
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Mar 5, 2022
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Jane Barlow (1856-1917)
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"Published posthumously. A domestic story in which the personages are drawn from the county family class. The Delaney family is in reduced circumstances, the father striving to keep the wolf from the door; the sons a happy-go-lucky, lazy, pleasant lot; the mother and daughters aiming at respectability and good matches. Mio, a sensitive, imaginative, refined child, is Captain D.'s adopted daughter. There are many subsidiary characters, and the plot is loose yet complicated- An element of...
Topics: novel, Ireland
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Mar 2, 2022
03/22
Mar 2, 2022
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Jane Barlow (1856-1917)
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"Embroidered upon an exceptionally involved plot four times we are introduced to a wholly new set of characters we have the Author's usual qualities, minute observation and depiction of curious aspects of character, snatches of clever picturesque conversation, an occasional vivi'd glimpse of nature. But in this case the caste is made up of spiteful, petty, small-minded and generally disagreeable personages. They are nearly all drawn from the middle and upper classes in the South of...
Topics: novel, Ireland
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Jan 18, 2022
01/22
Jan 18, 2022
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Jane Barlow (1856-1917)
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Nemesis in a Garden 3 Quin's Rick 75 A White Roof 97 At a Safe Distance 111 A Bad Sixpence 137 Judy's Bribe 149 By the Whitethorn Bush 161 Wishers at the Well 173 A Blank Page 187 Among the Honey-Blobs 219 A Stroke of Business 243 A Short Loan 259 Namesakes 281 "Thirteen stories, all but one (the longest) dealing with peasant life in the Author's wonted manner. Perhaps scarcely so good as some of her earlier collections." Stephen Brown, 1919, Ireland in fiction...
Topics: short fiction, Ireland
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Nov 9, 2021
11/21
Nov 9, 2021
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Felix Ryark, pseudonym for James William Barlow (1826-1913). Also credited to his daughter Jane Barlow (1856-1917), which is unlikely.
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"A dream story of an enchanted land beyond the mists." The Advertiser, 6 Jun 1908, p. 14, A Delightful Country, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5148245. See also https://annevanweerden.nl/CatherineDisney.html#Utrecht_10_November_2021
Topics: fantasy, Ireland
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Aug 23, 2021
08/21
Aug 23, 2021
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Jane Barlow (1856-1917)
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A Luncheon Party 1 A Formidable Rival 25 Mac's Ways and Means 51 Some Jokes of Timothy 91 A Wedding Gown 125 The Field of the Frightful Beasts 199 The Aunt of the Savages 243 An Invincible Ignoramus 275 "Eight stories in which Mac, or rather Macartney Valentine O'Neill Barry, who is four years old in the first and six in the last, plays a leading part. Indeed he is quite a little deus ex macJiina, or rather a good fairy in the affairs of his elders. Mac is neither a paragon nor a youthful...
Topics: short fiction, Ireland
The famous Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) is generally regarded as having been an unhappily married alcoholic. The aim of this essay is to show that, contrary to this widespread belief, Hamilton had a good marriage, that in fact large parts of his marriage were fairly happy. It is discussed where the idea of his marriage as having been an unhappy one came from, and it is shown that according to current standards he was by no means an alcoholic....
Topics: biography, nineteenth century, Ireland, Dublin, Dunsink Observatory
Catherine Disney (1800-1853) is known as the ‘lost love’ of the Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), but about herself little is known. Based on what Hamilton wrote about her and scraps of information which were found on various places, extended with conclusions which could be drawn from known events, this is a sketch of how she fell in love with Hamilton in 1824, what the motives may have been for her family to force her to marry the reverend William Barlow...
Topics: biography, nineteenth century, Ireland
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